Pregnancy Scrapbook

When I was pregnant with Lucas, I saw a lot of cute pregnancy journal books that I wanted to get. But there were so many other important, expensive things that we had to get at the time that we couldn't really justify getting one. I also couldn't ever pick one that had everything I wanted, and didn't have stupid stuff that I didn't really care about. I really only wanted like 10 pages of info and pictures, not 30. So, I just decided to write down the stuff that I liked from some of the books, and then record the info in my own scrapbook. I also kept a journal throughout the pregnancy so that I could remember what happened and when.

Well, as most crafts go, I'm only just now getting around to working on it. I did a baby shower page like a year ago, but I didn't work on anything else. Good thing I kept a journal so I don't have to try to remember everything. Anyway, I think it's turned out pretty cute. I stuck to the basics and kept it simple so there's a possibility of being able to do this with every baby.

Since this is supposed to be a journal as well as a scrapbook, but I'm not a huge fan of my handwriting, I typed out the journaling sections on the computer and printed them out. Put a cute paper border around it and viola! I used my silhouette to cut out almost all the cute borders in the scrapbook. It took a bit longer than it would have if I'd had a punch, but at $25 a pop for border punches like this, I can take a bit of extra time. The silhouette has really changed the way I scrapbook.

For the ultrasound pictures, there wasn't enough room on the page for all of them, but I wanted to keep all the pictures together so I made this cute envelope to hold the rest of them. I'm going to start making envelopes more often, they are so cute. I used this tutorial to get it to be just the right size.

I really like to use what I have when I scrapbook. I try not to go out and buy more paper for specific projects. I was working on a certain page, though, and I chose a cute pattern for one side, but there wasn't another one for the other side of the page, or a coordinating paper that I could make work. I was thinking of a specific paper in my mind that I thought would look good, but I didn't have it, and I wasn't even sure if I would be able to find it. Lucas was coloring with crayons next to me and I saw that he had the exact color that would match, so I decided to get creative. I used a plain white piece of paper, a white and colored crayon, and a snowflake for texture.

I drew on the white crayon with the colored crayon to deposit some of the color on the white crayon. You could probably just use the colored crayon instead of both the white and colored, but I wanted to be careful and keep the color to a minimum. Then I put the snowflake behind the paper, and rubbed the crayon back and forth over the snowflake.

And now I have matching paper and I didn't have to spend any money.

I still have so much scrapbooking to do, from before we even had Lucas, but it feels really good to have something done... at least until I get pregnant again.